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Lydia Lunch has been an important figure in New York's downtown art and music scene since the late 1970s, when she led such seminal no-wave bands as Teenage Jesus & the Jerks and 8 Eyed Spy. Since then she has been widely acclaimed for her writing, spoken word projects, and performances in experimental films.
Since the 1960s, Tony Conrad's experimental work has helped define the contours of minimalism, both in music and in film. Even as films such as The Flicker upped the structuralist ante, he was crafting a body of musical work that stands as a major achievement of experimental composition, from long-duration performances with LaMonte Young and John Cale as The Theater of Eternal Music to his more pop-oriented work with the German art-rock band Faust.
Synthesis illustrates the virtuosity of Beck's work with the Direct Video Synthesizer. Conception is an abstract work that refers to origins and archetypes; Methods is a step-by-step explanation of Beck's Synthesizer. Composed with Jordan Belson, Cycles is a "videofilm" that fuses both...
Explosive bursts of fire open Technology/Transformation, an incendiary deconstruction of the ideology embedded in television form and pop cultural iconography. Appropriating imagery from the 1970s TV series Wonder Woman, Birnbaum isolates and repeats the moment of the "real" woman's symbolic...
In TeleTapes, d'Agostino continues his critique and analysis of television's influence on everyday life and culture by exploring the content and time structure of broadcast TV. Composed of three parts — TeleTricks - TV Environments; TeleGames - And Now, The News; and TelePuzzles - TV Movies — this collage uses tricks, games, puzzles and a veritable dictionary of TV effects as analogies and metaphors for the visual and aural language of the television viewing experience.
Television Delivers People, produced with Carlota Schoolman, focuses on the political import of broadcasting as corporate monopoly and imperialism of the air. The content is presented ironically, for the message criticizes its medium while remaining within it. Muzak is playing while sentences...
Temp Stop, as the title implies, has a disjunctive quality that separates it from the other parts of Re'Search Wait'S. As if emanating from the basement of Any Ever, each scene plays like a hidden-away epilogue rendering characters comparatively surreal--in part because they are often straightforward and ordinary.
Hammer’s 1996 documentary Tender Fictions is the second in a trilogy of autobiographical films that includes the iconic Nitrate Kisses and History Lessons. The film was chosen for the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, for which Lisanne Skyler wrote, “[Barbara Hammer’s] struggle becomes symbolic of all those who have rejected the ideals by which they were raised...a moving and provocative look at the role of community in an artist’s life and the role of the artist in her community."
A thread illuminated with neon video static pushes its way through a white sleeve, linking one arm to another. Commenting on the linkages between technology and the body—literally sewing the two together—Tension Tape can also be seen as making a reference to theories of time and reality, "string theory," and the question of temporal continuity, with the string embodying the chronological sequencing and causal relationship between events and the complicating gaps in its continuum.
